Posts by Energos

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Any news on Nvidia Telsa or AMD Firestream? (Message 48543) Posted 11 Nov 2007 by Energos Post: Yup thats what I'm talking about... so any official word as to when/if we will ever see a BOINC client developed for this platform?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Quad Proc Opteron vs 2 x Quad Core Intel (Message 48542) Posted 11 Nov 2007 by Energos Post: Thanks for the input everyone, you all confirmed what I thought. Looks like I'll be going for Intel Q6600 boxes.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Any news on Nvidia Telsa or AMD Firestream? (Message 48481) Posted 9 Nov 2007 by Energos Post: I was just wondering if the good people at Bakerlabs have any development using either the Nvidia Telsa or AMD Firestream HPC GPU's on the horizon. As opposed to what F@H have done with the ATI GPU's these are dedicated platforms for HPC. 500GFLOPS from one ATI Firestream 2GB card is impressive, you'd get some serious crunching going on if some dev was done for running on either the Nvidia or ATI HPC platforms. Just a thought... not sure of its viability but seems like a better option than having to use standard GPU's and live with all the driver issues like the folks at F@H have.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Quad Proc Opteron vs 2 x Quad Core Intel (Message 48480) Posted 9 Nov 2007 by Energos Post: I have the opportunity to invest in either of the 2 following dedicated crunching setups and am after some feedback on what you guys think will be the faster/better crunchers. Option 1 1 x Quad Proc Opteron 885 Dual Core Server - 4 Dual Core 2.6Ghz (O/C @ 2.8Ghz) Processors each with 2x1MB L2 Cache. Option 2 2 x Single Proc Intel Q6600 Quad Core Workstations - 1 Q6600 2.44 (O/C @ 3.0Ghz) with 2x4MB L2 Cache per workstation. So each setup will have a total of 8cores, the fact the option 2 is actually 2 machines is irrelevant; power, space, o/s licenses do not matter. What does everyone think? The thought of a Quad Dual Core Server is quite attractive however the Opteron 885 procs are 1st generation and probably can't compete with the latest Quad Core Intels. Thoughts, reccomendations?